chriswyatt

When Sony came up with 35 hours they probably were using 48 Kbps with the volume set to 0, wouldn't surprise me.

Listening to Kyler | Pur Cosy Tales at ATRAC3plus 256Kbps. 1. Muldicat 2. Venice Williams Paperclip 3. Manington 4. Pebbletron 5. Pilgrim Rise 6. Marvin Mole For Prime Minister 7. Which County 8. Go With The Bure Avon Fairy 9. Brewster Baked A Sour Apple Memory 10. Frets 11. Lovejoy 12. John 13. Ladybird Island 14. Green Wooden Huts 15. Dishwasher 16. High Speed Dubbin' 17. Herring 18. We Beseech Thee 19. Grand Coulee Dam 20. Brewster Majik 21. Leopard Tracks 22. Friend Boxdog 23. Clue 24. Discontinue This Boli Treatment On The Quiet 25. Emily 26. Teapot Time Machine 27. Ershine 28. Vitesse 29. Peg Bag Mist 30. Coal 31. Carol's Beautiful Peacocks 32. Day My Dog Died

I don't have a clue, just trying to help anyone out there who might. I had a look at the file in hexplorer, used this pixel viewer tool and set column width to 128, I could just make out bunny rabbits which is a good sign. Sadly, I can't view at 2 bits per pixel . I reckon the little thumbnail (for the menus) is stored just before the frames, I can sort of make out something there but I'm not sure how many pixels make up those thumbnails, looks like they could be 32 pixels wide.

Did my topic name change? I can't remember writing that, makes more sense though. Thanks mod guys.

Well, it didn't exactly crash, but it seized up and I couldn't stop, pause, play or navigate tracks and I couldn't shut down the player, I had to reset the wretched thing. The sound was just repeating like when a CD jams, so I suspect it might have been a mechanical error or something :S . But I'm actually quite pleased because I've been using the player heavily ever since Christmas and I've had no problems with it, when compared to my friends iPods and Creative players which seem to crash all the time, so well done Sony for making a 'pretty' stable player.

I think the NW-A series uses 2-bit colour (i.e. 4 colours) , the NW-m series uses 1-bit colour (on or off) . That's something to take into consideration.

Why would you need to defragment when you initialise the player?

I opened the files in MS-DOS Editor and it just looks like a bitmap, not a standard BMP file though. I thought it might have been like the old animated IE logo which was just a bitmap, but each frame was layed out vertically in a strip.

You could try this (XP) : Go to the Device Properties page for your player (In Device Manager). Go to the Policies tab. Select 'Optimize for Performance' --- Now you should be able to format your player with NTFS (natively via Windows) . You can switch back to 'Optimize For Quick Removal' after formatting in NTFS. It seems that Windows tries to discourage using NTFS for portable devices.

Oh, maybe my instructions weren't very good then . Make sure that Sonicstage isn't running when you do this, just to be safe. Lets say the E drive is your NWA player, type 'E:' in the Extract To dialogue box (omitting the quotations of course) . After extraction you should have 2 folders on your player, OMGAUDIO and NWWM-SCR, NWWM-SCR should contain 4 screensaver files. To change to one of these screensavers you go to Settings, then Screensaver, then Available and you should be able to select them from there.

Simplified Instructions: 1. Download NWWM-SCR.exe 2. Extract to the root of the C: drive (or wherever) 3. A folder called NWWM-SCR is now created 4. Move or copy this folder to the root of your NWA Series Player ensuring that you have the latest firmware (2.01) required to run the files 5. If all is successful you should have 4 new screensavers on your player!

Cool, when were these released?

Of course, the big companies like to divide by 1000 when it suits them, take hard drives and flash media for example, when they say 1 GB that's usually 1 * 10^9 bytes, not to mention the space the filesystem secretly takes up.

Yeah, I don't use that stupid artist link button anyway. A now playing list would be a nice feature, you could just select a song or album and press the artist link button .

Do you think that you could find the splash screen in NWA3000.bin, it would be quite fun to change that. I guess there will probably be a point where there are a bunch of repeated characters representing black.

Do both the files reside on the device or is i just NW_A3000.UPG?

Yeah, that would be cool. How does OLED work anyway?

Some programs can request full CPU usage, it doesn't necessarily mean they use the full 100% allocated to them. Not so good if you want to run other programs with Sonicstage.

Thanks, I forgot you could do it from the player. And I was surprised by how little battery power it used .

They do need to improve importing songs. All my compilations could split up and I had to go through every one and mark as compilations, but then the tracks were out of order. Then when I used CDDB it couldn't match all the songs in my CDs to the database, so my whole database is a bit of a mess really. Also, for one of my songs it said that the filetype was not supported, but the rest of the album imported fine . And I can't use Connect (Download service), I've had problems using that before, it may be something to do with having IE7 installed.

Best bet would be to upgrade to Sonicstage 4.0.

How come Initialize (as in initialize the player) is greyed out, I wanted to initialize my player today and it wasn't there. I just deleted everything instead.

Yes, that is correct. Maybe next release eh?

The feature's not much use to me really, the calendar may come in handy if I want to see how many days in the month there are. I was hoping for a way of having track information on the screen all the time. Perhaps, at a reduced brightness setting to save power instead of some stupid screensaver. Oh, and has anyone noticed that the 'pause song' beep now sounds like the 'stop song' beep.

If this is the European version then nice one .